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HERALD FOCUS 86 Vol a problem Theyve got the answer Alton lis own everything you wanted to know about social services centre is answering more questions to peoples problems every year the Acton Social Services and Information Centre moved into the Town on Willow Street recently they are able to do more for the people of North Their efforts are in community development development means improving Hie community by offering needed services to them Sometimes they are services only available in the south The centre helps bring thun to the north Community development is also helping residents with welfare and other government forms It is ing transportation to the south of and putting people with problems in touch with people who can them The Acton Social Services and Information Centre does all this The centre was responsible for starting the Block Parent program and Meals on Wheels In addition to being the creator of programs they assist established social agencies who need a place to work from in Acton When the centre opened years ago it was a place for people to meet Peggie said Mrs is the executive director of the centre People were meeting cars before he centre opened she said People working with welfare health children s aid needed whut to ilk with clients The first meeting place was renovated room in the back of Acton s MCA In 19112 the centre moved to store front on Mill Street and business went up per cent The hidden office at the which the centre had rent free in return for staff working as reception Ists for the was not in a enough place to attract visitors Nor was the office space large enough to achieve what the centre wanted Being in Town Hall is a high profile location The publicity ding the opening of the hall makes the staff confident that knows about it Mrs said The bigger building is perhaps too big for the staff of three We are at a catch up stage Mrs said The building may be too big for the present staff of one fulltime worker time workers but it is not too large for the needs of North The centre is a very active place So active Mrs needs her part time staff on full time she said Were hoping to get provincial fund We really need more man hours she said The centre Is funded by the region community donations and rent Peggie has been with the centre for five years and Is the only full time employee Eileen and Carol Clark ore part time employees and hove been with the centre for less three The greatest need In North Halton and everywhere is housing Mrs said If we had that problem solved it would look after a lot of other problems she said There arc shortages of affordable housing baleen represents the centre on the Task Force for Shelter The task force feels Ihere is an urgent need for an emergency shelter as well as short lerm and long term affordable nous ing The need is there and the centre is working to solve that need That is the mandate of the three staff members and over volunteers of the centre Hours of to JO m Monday through Friday Once a week the staff closes for lunch if they can afford the time off Mrs said The centre is also used in Ihc evenings by appointment Just settlement once The man after whom Georgetown is named George Kennedy was one of a group of settlers who came to Township from the Niagara region George father like many others in that neighborhood had been a United Empire Loyalist and George along with several brothers had participated in the War of 1812 Georges legacy of a stint in the Artillery was partial blindness in both eyes After the war older brother Kennedy was hired to survey part of one of the new townships the govern meat had purchased from the Indians In the process he identified some of the best land and shortly before the survey was completed about IBID 1820 five Kennedy brothers claimed land in the neighborhood of Georgetown George Morns Charles Samuel and John In addition their brother In law Williams came to settle in the area now known as Glen Williams Society 11 years old Historical Society was founded in 1975 It encourages the appreciation of the past in the area incompassmg the former Township of including Georgetown and Acton Activities include regular meetings walking tours publications contests and the development of a local archives with the Hills Public Libraries For membership or historical reference write to the society at O Box Georgetown Ontario L7G As the community grew up around the Kennedy settlement George expanded activities to include not just farming but milling using power prov ided by Silver Creek subsidiary of the Credit River He is reputed to have run one of the first grist mills in the area and in the was compliment for some prize winning wool produced at his local factory When Georgetown was booming in the IBjOs George had much of his land into town lots and named the streets after his children He djed seen the community grow from a wilderness Into a thriving centre of farming and commerce The Kennedy family would not build Georgetown on their own In the Barber brothers moved to the area from the first of several generations who would contribute to the history of the community In the 1850 the Barber Mills produced more wallpaper than any other place in the province and by the late 1880s the Barbers may have been the first harness ON ISKGixecuthc Acton Social with back the helm Joining the chairman are sitting front row left to right Nancy Moss I Rev J an Stairs Ma Hun Patterson middle Margaret felly Tuitman back row Gerald Rtnnle Hartley Coles Lome David Stucklcv Peter Marks Ross Knrchtel Herald photo Gets million dollar contract Tile trucks are on their way to inj California bearing the- piece- will take six people a month tail at Garret Aerospace For Park ihirmai Ltd of George Todd this is the ilract ever worth SI million The company has designed dip brazing facility for electric power for processing waveguides Waveguides manufacturing in North America Other pioneers included James Young grain and general merchant the village first reeve and founder of the local leather industry Georgetown became the railroad centre of the area after the opening of the Grand Trunk Railway In 1856 and the Hamilton and Northwestern Rail way some years later A third rail nneclion was the Toronto Suburban in These iluminum parts used by the research manufacturing division A manufacturer of industrial heal treating furnaces Park Thermal automated dip brazing faciht heats up Ihc waveguides in a special oven The heat makes the aluminum parts stronger and more durable The specially designed facility next takes these waveguides along monorail to a second station No complaints about dollar The poor shape of the Canadian dollar is turning out to be a boon for at least one Georgetown company Overhead Conveyor Cor on Armstrong Avenue Is finding Its doing a lot more business in the States thanks to the declining Canadian dollar relative to the US dollar The companys general manager Paul said the firm will be going to 12 trade shows this year many of them in the States Pad in manufactures overhead conveyors for use by other manufnetu res Mr said the overhead conveyors carry products differently from the typical conveyor belt seen in assembly lines Instead of the product sitting on the conveyor it hangs from above This Is great for a company involved in painting products like furniture or auto parts A small hole built in the item to be painted allows for it to be hooked onto the overhead conveyor Started up in 197 the company moved shortly thereafter to George town from Toronto We moved here because it was away from the main bustle and it was a nicer place to be Mr Gcddes said Although they installed systems in Europe Pakistan and much or the market is in the industrial parts of Canada and the for Among their customers can be counted the Ford Motor Company the Chrysler Company the St Catharines foundery C A E and Bell Helicopter of Montreal Wc have quite a few installations in Brampton with most of them in southern Ontario Mr said Because this is a competitive business it makes hard for to export Its product but the favorable exchange rate is helping the company export into the The trend is to more autonomy and big companies prefer computers and robots Mr Gcddes said The overhead conveyors that trend The good thing about overhead conveyors is they free up the floor space and relievo congestion Mr said Thats one of the main plusses Each customer gets an individual ly designed conveyor system made for the layout of their company varying from feet long to feet long Pacline employs six staff in Georgetown and a twoperson installat ion crew which Is on the road The company has distributors across Can and in parts of the was started up by Paul and his father Lome The older had been working with convey or systems all his life and owned a similar company in Montreal before selling it The company has since gone out of business Paul said Railway brought plenty of business to hotels like the Railroad Exchange and the Clark and Bennett Houses where travelling salesmen would rub elbows at the bar with local farmers who came to town to sell their produce and pick up supplies from the days of the pioneers Georgetown grew rapidly into an important community Nearly had arrived by 1845 and when Georgetown The aluminum par then go to the third station where theyre air cooled and quench washed Finally a robot blows the salt off Ihc waveguides Company president Brian Held Port Credit admits it s a complicated process He says working with computers and creating automa d systems hove added nu finally incorporated as a village in his company ISM there were about 1400 people Park rivalling as the largest s custom made The basic ideas community in County Over the heat treating arc molded to following century the community grew the plating trade and the steadily becoming a town in 1922 automotive industries In By the end of World War almost lhe component parts Georgetown home processed in furnace This rapidly changed in the next few Park Thermal may have made years after the arrival of Rex A Mil and the transformation of the farms on the eastern edge of town into the subdivision A second Not Park Thermal They recently built a huge furnace in Cambridge thats the thcarl Instead of brick the interior is ceramic fibre insulation Inch guarantees a fast heating up and tooling down time Computer contrail till furnace is 50 feet long The company does all its own electrical work designing control panels Its staff of includes three engineers and two draftsmen Along with designing and supply the equipment Park Thermal also installs it and trains staff on how to use the new facility Park Thermal customers arc located across the country and even around the world We re doing a lot of export work to places like the States Costa Rica Manilla Bangladesh West Germany and Jamaica Mr Held said They deal with really small tool and die shops and with huge like General Motors of Canada Ltd and even with the Winnipeg and Ottawa Royal Canadian Mints At the mints Park Thermal has furnaces for the processing of the dies Every lime a is struck Its done with a die Mr explained The dies must be very hard to be able to do that so many times a day The company Is also getting into the rubber curing business in a big way now selling a lot of salt to companies like Tridon Park Thermal also sells salt to the eye glass lens manufactur who use it to temper the lenses and improve the of them The company blends its own salt formulas for tempering purposes In course of a year Park docs about systems Mr Held said and they range from orders to ones and now 3 million jobs The company deals with many aircraft manufacturing companies like Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg de Douglas Aircraft Air Canada Four years ago the company expanded its building on Todd Road and Mr Held says there be another expansion in the works this year possibly doubling the size of the operation and increasing staff by eight So the future is exciting for us he exclaimed have gained the industrial acceptance of the market place Thats really a key statement boom followed many dents now commuting to jolts In Malton and Toronto By the lime regional government was introduced In 1974 Georgetown had expanded into a sizable centre and today Georgetown Acton and surrounding Township make up the larger corporation the Town of Walter Lewis fesqueslng Historical Society A tall energetic businessman Mr president for ever since his dad founder of the company stepped down to become chairman of the board Started up in Pork Thermal began by manufacturing industrially used heat treating furnaces as well as related metallurgical items like a saltquenching oil stopoff points foil There arc about items the company sells which arc related to the heat treating of metal Mr Held said Most people think of furnaces as having a steel shell and a brick inside Kids on the Block may have friends Clean air a growing concern By BRIAN Herald Special Few people would compromise the quality of the air ln Canada and CJB Associates Inc has set up shop in Georgetown to supply the information needed to keep the air clean Colin opened his oneman company on Georgetown in 1982 There proved to be a great need for his services A long client list has kept him busy since the companys inception Mr consulting firm provides Information about air quality to government private industry and public interest groups His list of clients ranges from the Ontario Waste Management Corporation to Eldonado Resources In Ottawa and some over seas work Most of my clients are in Toronto out West and in the States he said He explained the reason he set up in Georgetown is because I live here and it Is in close proximity to most of my clients Mr work is mostly research oriented The majority of his work consists of establishing what Ihc emissions for a plant or proposed plant would be and determining how the air quality would be affected he explained The last few years have been relatively productive for Mr Bayncs as he has worked on three potential waste plant energy projects lhaveto satisfy a hearing board that there will be no adverse affects from the plants he said If he Feels that any excess air pollution would be generated from the plants Mr must make I on page 12 Hills may be buying some lifcsizc dolts come budget time The dolls arent intended to enter lam councillors but to entertain childr en in North Three local women made a plea for whatever funds council could spare Inwards the Kids on the Block troupe of puppets Benny MacLeod Bo Is lie and Cathy Hawkins said the puppets are used to teach children about the needs and problems of the handicapp ed Through their dialogue with each other and the children In the audience they answer questions and calm the fears often felt by children towards those with disabilities So for Ihc oneyearold Kids on the Block Committee in North has two of these dolls who wear children clothes in their kit They need at least one more puppet to be able to put on educational programs which they intend to stage in class rooms this September January the Committee learned the Spina Bifida Association was donating Valerie and the Kiwnnls flub have said theyll donate Joanne two dolls with a handicap Now a normal doll is needed to react on stage with Joanne and Valerie The puppets don come cheap Acunhng to Mrs MacLeod these three foot tall puppets cost about each The North Halton Commit tec has raised and hopes to raise even more so that they can have a troupe of five to six puppets out of a possible I think this would be a worthwhile project for the boards of education to get involved in because its educational Coun Betty Fisher said Monday night Cathy Hawkins a teacher of the deaf at C Drury said they werenl able to get any funding from the boards although the boards acknowledged the benefit of the Kids on the Block program Part of the reason is that the puppets arent just to be used in classrooms but are also to speak to children in libraries parks fairs and churches Ms Hawkins said The puppets speak In a language children can understand Fibre optics a staple in the communications diet Mike engineer The Georgetown facility of Rockwell is a part of the Rockwell Telecom group design and manufacture telecommunication products Wc ship across Canada and export Into the US and UK A wide variety of systems and modules for various telephone com panies are manufactured in Georgetown One example of the type of product produced and designed in Georgetown is an Air to Ground system that enables telephone calls to be made from air craft in flight The Georgetown location opened In 1D77 with a total staff of Through the years have expand our facility and now have a lotnl staff of Our General Manager Mike has both marketing and engineering background which has enabled us to move quickly in the telecommunications industry The telecommunications in dustrys major trend today Is the rapid move towards fibre optica transmission With the recent ad vent of cost effective fibre cable and electronics every telephone com pony in Canada has already Install ed many fibre networks and future plans are already in place to Install more and more fibre Also customers networks will evolve so that products not on the market to day will also be In demand The future of our business in Canada will be greatly impacted by installation of fibre optics can sec the day when we arc manufacturing fibre Ironic terminals at our Georgetown facility Customers requirements which arc not yet on the market will also allow us to develop and manufacture new products We estimate that almost 70 of our business three years from now will he for products that do not exist here at work putting